Short Take: Trimble's founder steps down

Trimble Navigation Limited, a maker of satellite-based navigation, positioning, and communications data products, announced that the company's founder Charles Trimble was stepping down effective immediately as president and CEO, and that Dr. Bradford Parkinson has assumed the position of acting president and CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement. Parkinson is currently a professor at Stanford University's aeronautics and astronautics department.

20 August 199811:55 pm AEST

Trimble Navigation Limited, a maker of
satellite-based navigation, positioning, and communications data products,
announced that the company's founder Charles Trimble was stepping down
effective immediately as president and CEO, and that Dr. Bradford
Parkinson has assumed the position of acting president and CEO while the
company searches for a permanent replacement. Parkinson is currently a
professor at Stanford University's aeronautics and astronautics department.